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Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
ke many before me, I've built and rebuilt my resume many times over the years. I've used many different approaches, including LaTeX and visual editors, in search of something that fulfilled my aspirational criteria: - the development experience should be pleasant, - the content and layout should work well with version control, and - the output should be easy to access.
True, Indeed and other job platforms don't accept HTML documents, and a recent straw poll among my unwilling friends concluded that a resume.html email attachment is definitely a virus. Thankfully, there is a lot of great tooling available in the form of static site generators, whose principal purpose is to meld data, structure, and styling into files for the web. Additionally, I wanted the section labels to collapse to be inline with the resume's content for narrow viewports, which only required changing a few of the grid-layout parameters in a media query.
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